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Name: powerbox
Version: 0.2.2
Summary: Create arbitrary boxes with isotropic power spectra
Home-page: https://github.com/steven-murray/powerbox
Author: Steven Murray
Author-email: steven.murray@curtin.edu.au
License: MIT
Description: ========
        powerbox
        ========
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        **Make arbitrarily structured, arbitrary-dimension boxes.**
        
        `powerbox` is a pure-python code for creating density grids (or boxes) that have an arbitrary two-point distribution
        (i.e. power spectrum). Primary motivations for creating the code were the simple creation of lognormal mock galaxy
        distributions, but the methodology can be used for other applications.
        
        Features
        --------
        * Works in any number of dimensions.
        * Really simple.
        * Arbitrary isotropic power-spectra.
        * Create Gaussian or Log-Normal fields
        * Create discrete samples following the field, assuming it describes an over-density.
        
        Installation
        ------------
        Clone/Download then ``python setup.py install``. Or just ``pip install powerbox``.
        
        Basic Usage
        -----------
        There are two useful classes: the basic ``PowerBox`` and one for log-normal fields: ``LogNormalPowerBox``.
        You can import them like
        
        .. code:: python
        
            from powerbox import PowerBox, LogNormalPowerBox
        
        Once imported, to see all the options, just use `help`:
        
        .. code:: python
        
            help(PowerBox)
        
        For a basic 2D Gaussian field with a power-law power-spectrum, one can use the following:
        
        .. code:: python
        
            pb = PowerBox(N=512,                     # Number of grid-points in the box
                          dim=2,                     # 2D box
                          pk = lambda k: 0.1*k**-2., # The power-spectrum
                          boxlength = 1.0)           # Size of the box (sets the units of k in pk)
            import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
            plt.imshow(pb.delta_x)
        
        Other attributes of the box can be accessed also -- check them out with tab completion in an interpreter!
        The ``LogNormalPowerBox`` class is called in exactly the same way, but the resulting field has a log-normal pdf with the
        same power spectrum.
        
        
        TODO
        ----
        * At this point, log-normal transforms are done by back-and-forward FFTs on the grid, which could be slow for higher
          dimensions. Soon I will implement a more efficient way of doing this using numerical Hankel transforms.
        * Some more tests might be nice.
Keywords: power-spectrum signal processing
Platform: UNKNOWN
